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| Harkness Dance Center, 2007-2008 Performance Season Preview |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Sarah Morton, 212.415.5435, email |
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2007-2008 PERFORMANCE SEASON
92ND STREET Y HARKNESS DANCE CENTER |
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| Renata Celichowska, Director |
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92ND STREET Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL
14th Season; 5 Companies, 20 Performances
SUNDAYS AT THREE
Informal Previews of New and Reconstructed Works
FRIDAYS AT NOON
Free previews of new or developing choreography in a relaxed setting
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center receives major support from the
Harkness Foundation for Dance and additional major support from the Arnhold Foundation.
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| New York, NY, August, 2, 2007—The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center offers a dynamic season of performances, featuring talented companies, rising new choreographers and seasoned artists. |
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♦ The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, an annual five-week exploration of contemporary dance, returns to The Ailey® Studios on West 55th Street, with dancers from Japan, Israel and Canada joining groups from New York City.
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♦ Sundays At Three, which runs monthly from October to May, gives choreographers a chance to show evolving or new works and provides audiences with a chance to deepen their understanding of dance-making through post-performance Q&As. Highlights this season include a Veterans Day performance in November in which several choreographers respond to the theme of "veterans;" performances by Nejla Yatkin, Susan Cherniak and Peter Kyle; a Legacy Performance devoted to Martha Graham, as part of the celebration of the Y's contributions to American dance since the 1930s; and a show of teen choreographers.
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♦ The informal Fridays At Noon series continues its free one-hour performances, which provide an excellent opportunity for school groups to see and learn about dance, and for adults to see developing work from a range of choreographers. Fridays At Noon takes place twice a month from October through May.
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| 92ND STREET Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL |
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Wednesday, February 13 through Sunday, March 16
Tickets $20; www.92Y.org/dance or 212.415.5500 |
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92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, WEEK ONE
KOTA YAMAZAKI/FLUID HUG HUG
Wed, Feb 13 through Sun, Feb 17
♦ World Premiere ♦
Trained in both classical ballet and Butoh, Japanese dancer and choreographer KOTA YAMAZAKI blends these two distinctive techniques with contemporary dance to create a fluid style unlike any other. His company, FLUID HUG HUG presents the world premiere of April-May-June, and a new version of Yamazaki's 1997 work, Picnic, now titled Picnic...for men. Yamazaki has performed at Jacob's Pillow, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Arizona State University and Dance Theater Workshop, as well as in Japan, France, Australia, Senegal, Singapore and England. Yamazaki moved to New York in 2002 and founded a new company, Fluid Hug Hug, with his wife, Mina Nishimura. Profiling Yamazaki in The New York Times last year, Claudia LaRocco noted his choreography's "organic loops of movement" and "fluid phrases."
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92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, WEEK TWO
[ZØGMA] URBAN FOLKLORE COLLECTIVE
Wed, Feb 20 through Sun, Feb 24
Rapaillé and Additional Work, TBA
Based in Québec, [ZØGMA] URBAN FOLKLORE COLLECTIVE draws on the province's traditional folklore, dance and music as well as the ethnic diversity of the province's urban centers to create a new aesthetic. The group's founders, Dominic Desrochers, Mario Boucher and Frédérique-Annie Robitaille, bring their collective backgrounds in traditional and contemporary dance, ethnography and history to their choreography. [ZØGMA] has toured throughout Québec and Ontario, and was the official representative of Québec at an African cultural festival. The group has also made numerous television appearances, including an appearance as guests on Cirque de Soleil's series Solstrom. Rapaillé, inspired by the rhythmic texts of Québecois poet Gaston Miron, features six dancers who take percussive dance and traditional jigs in new directions, evoking the dynamism of contemporary urban life.
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92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, WEEK THREE
nathantrice/RITUALS
Wed, Feb 27 through Sun, Mar 2
Program TBA
NATHAN TRICE began studying dance in 1989, while he was still in the U.S. Navy. Having completed his service, he was accepted into the Alvin Ailey certificate program, and then went on to dance with Ailey II, MOMIX, Complexions, Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater, Heidi Latsky Dance Theater and other groups. He teaches dance at both Long Island University and the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. Trice formed nathantrice/RITUALS in 1998, and the company has since toured in the U.S., Japan, Argentina, Bermuda and Aruba. Backstage described Trice's work as "kinesthetically delicious... rich in content and offer[ing] dramatic depictions of religious myths and rituals." The Dallas Morning News called his dances "sensational, sexy, carefully calibrated and operatic."
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92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, WEEK FOUR
OUT OF ISRAEL: LEESAAR THE COMPANY and NETTA YERUSHALMY
Wed, Mar 5 through Sun, Mar 9
LEESAAR: E Katan and NETTA YERUSHALMY: ♦ World Premiere ♦
Two Israeli companies based in New York present new and developing works. LEESAAR THE COMPANY, formed by Saar Hariri and Lee Sher, show a work-in-progress, E Katan (Little Island), for four dancers and two actors. NETTA YERUSHALMY presents the world premiere of an untitled work. LeeSaar The Company was formed in Israel in 2000 and had seasons in Tel Aviv and Sydney, Australia before coming to the U.S. Sher and Hariri have performed at The Flea, Joyce SoHo, DTW and in last year's 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, where they premiered Part II. Netta Yerushalmy grew up in Israel, moved to New York and graduated from New York University's Department of Dance. Her choreography, described by The Village Voice as "pungent, potent, head-clearing," has been presented at numerous venues in New York City (Joyce SoHo, The Kitchen, Judson Church, Danspace Project) as well as at Jacob's Pillow, in Martha's Vineyard and in Israel. She has worked with Doug Varone, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Mark Jarecke, Karinne Keithley and Noemie LaFrance.
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92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, WEEK FIVE
BRIAN BROOKS MOVING COMPANY
Wed, Mar 12 through Sun, Mar 16
Program TBA
Brian Brooks started THE BRIAN BROOKS MOVING COMPANY started in 1997, and won funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 1998 for a series of dances in public spaces around New York. Since then, the group has performed at the American Dance Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Jacob's Pillow, Symphony Space, the Egg and across the U.S., as well as in Canada and South Korea. Dance critic Brian McCormick wrote of Brook's work, "Imagine the theoretical child of Merce Cunningham and Elizabeth Streb... Imagine it young, loud, bright and fun. This is the choreography of Brian Brooks."
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| SUNDAYS AT THREE |
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| Preview performances of new and reconstructed works by emerging and veteran choreographers. Post-performance discussions with the artists. Tickets, at $10 per performance, can be purchased at www.92y.org/dance or 212.415.5500. |
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October 14 — REBECCA LAZIER AND TERRAIN
Terminal and Serenade
Terrain presents two dances choreographed by Rebecca Lazier: Terminal, a new work, and Serenade, set to Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Lazier is the Artistic Director of Terrain, formed in 2001. The company has performed at Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Kitchen, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, BAX and in Boston, California, Michigan and Nova Scotia. Lazier, a Nova Scotia native, trained with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and then studied at Juilliard. She started choreographing in 1995. In 1998, she became the first foreign artist-in-residence at the Mimar Sinan Conservatory in Istanbul and in 2000 won the Bessie Schoenberg Choreography residency at The Yard. Backstage said of her work, "Lazier embraces the natural movement style of a pure modern dancer and makes choreography that feels very human, full of breath and feeling, not at all formalistic." Lazier is currently a resident artist at Joyce SoHo and Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research.
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November 11 — Veterans Day Dances with DEGANIT SHEMY, HEIDI LATSKY, RICARDO GOMEZ and NAOMI GOLDBERG-HAAS
In tribute to Veterans Day, several dance artists present works that reflect various meanings of the word "veteran," from soldier to seasoned performer to older person. Scheduled to perform are Deganit Shemy, Heidi Latsky, Ricardo Gomez and Naomi Goldberg-Haas. DEGANIT SHEMY, while still in Israel, won the Ministry of Culture's Young Choreographer's award in 2002. She moved to New York in 2005 and has performed at Dance New Amsterdam, DTW, Movement Research at the Judson Church and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. HEIDI LATSKY danced with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company for six years and has worked with a number of other artists, including Molissa Fenley, Sean Curran, Li Chiao-Ping and David Parker. Her choreography and her company have been presented at Jacob's Pillow, American Dance Festival, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and other venues in the U.S. and abroad. RICARDO GOMEZ is a dancer and choreographer and the founder of Ricardo Gomez Dance Theater. NAOMI GOLDBERG-HAAS was the founding artistic director of Los Angeles Modern Dance and Ballet. She has created a number of collaborative community projects that allow people who never thought they could dance to perform. Her work has been seen at the Kennedy Center, DTW, the Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space and the Flea.
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December 9 — SUSAN CHERNIAK & CHERNIAK DANCE
Movement Meridians
The company performs Temporal Circles, for three dancers, set to live percussion by Joe Pereira; a duet, Ardor, danced to a live string quartet playing Arvo Pärt's Fratres; and a solo set to a recording of Cherniak's parents singing. SUSAN CHERNIAK studied with Erick Hawkins and danced with the Nancy Meehan Dance Company. Her company, SUSAN CHERNIAK DANCE, has performed at Joyce SoHo, the Merce Cunningham Studio, the Mulberry Street Studio, the American Dance Guild 50th Anniversary Festival and other New York venues.
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January 13 — NEJLA YATKIN AND FRIENDS
Solo
NEJLA YATKIN seeks to expand the means of personal expression in her Solo, set to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. The dance touches on memory, loss, perception and love. Guest choreographers, including Eleo Pomare, Juliet Seignious, Keely Garfield, Tzveta Kassabova, Lionel Popkin and Christian Davenport, contribute distinctive solos of their own. Nejla Yatkin, of Turkish descent, was born in Berlin and now lives in the U.S. She teaches dance at the University of Maryland and has performed at venues in New York City, Washington, D.C. and overseas. The New York Times called her "a fierce and supple performer," while The Washington Post described her as "innovative...extraordinary... [and] a woman with a distinctive voice in firm control of her art."
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February 10 — PETER KYLE DANCE
New and Recent Dances
PETER KYLE DANCE presents a mixed bill, consisting of Nearer, a quartet set to a live percussion score by Brian Wentworth; and a work-in-progress showing of Hello, Central, which is danced to Dixieland jazz. Kyle also shows new episodes in his ongoing and popular Tiny Dance Film Series. PETER KYLE danced with the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group and Erick Hawkins Dance Company. He taught dance and drama at the University of Washington and has been a guest teacher at schools throughout the country. He has received choreography commissions from Symphony Space, Kent State University, Cornish College of the Arts, Kaleidoscope Dance Company, Pittsburgh Dance Council and the Seattle Men in Dance Festival. The New York Times has called Kyle's work "intelligent and humorous."
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March 11 — ASHLEY FRIEND AND DANCERS
Program TBA
ASHLEY FRIEND earned her MFA in Dance and Technology at Ohio State University, where she studied video, electronic music techniques and writing as well as dance. A car accident and resulting injury in 2001 sparked her interest in using technology in dance, and incorporating prosthetic limbs into her choreography. Friend was a resident artist at The Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida in 2006 and received a danceWEB scholarship in 2007. She established The Contemporary Dance Core in 2006.
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April 13 — 92nd Street Y Legacy Performance
MARTHA GRAHAM'S SATYRIC FESTIVAL SONG AND NEW WORKS BY ARTISTS IN THE GRAHAM TRADITION
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2009. Leading up to the anniversary, the Y is scheduling a series of Legacy Performances that celebrate the Y's contributions to American dance. In this performance, former Graham dancer and independent choreographer ERICA DANKMEYER performs Graham's gleeful 1932 solo, Satyric Festival Song. Then a group of choreographers, including VIRGINIE MÉCÈNE, TADEJ BRDNIK, CARRIE ELMORE-TALLITSCH and Dankmeyer herself present new works based in the Graham tradition. Dankmeyer founded Dankmeyer Dance Company, a dance collective, in 2002. Billed by The New York Times as "a modern dance choreographer of welcome intelligence and promise" and "an assured choreographer who is not afraid to dream big," she has created work for the Williams College Dance Company at the American College Dance Festival and the Ritz Chamber Players. Virginie Mécène is the Interim Director of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, the School's performing arm. Tadej Brdnik dances with the Martha Graham Dance Company. He has also danced with Battery Dance Company, and toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Project, where he worked with Lucinda Childs, Tricia Brown, David Gordon and other choreographers. Carrie Elmore-Tallitsch, a dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, teaches Graham technique and movement workshops in New York and along the east coast.
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May 11 — YOUNG MODERNS
Tomorrow's Choreographers Today
The final Sundays At Three of the season is an afternoon of entirely original works by teenage choreographers. Eight young New York City dancer/choreographers will show short pieces — solos, duets and group works. "The goal of the afternoon is to give young choreographers as close to a professional performance experience as possible, rather than a competition experience," Renata Celichowska, Director of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center explains. Unlike many other events featuring young dancers, this performance is totally generated by the teenage choreographers — not by their teachers or school groups. "The young people apply on their own," Celichowska says, "and, once chosen, they are responsible for getting their dancers ready, arranging rehearsals and preparing for the performance."
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| FRIDAYS AT NOON |
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Dubbed by The New York Times the 92nd Street Y's "delightfully informal" dance series, Fridays At Noon presents new works and works-in-progress by seasoned and up-and-coming choreographers in a relaxed, open venue. School groups are welcome, and a Q&A with the choreographers gives audience members — children and adults alike — a chance to learn more about the pieces being performed and about dance-making in general. On tap for Fridays At Noon this fall are: |
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September 28 — Erin Reck, Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson, Ashleigh Leite |
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October 12 — David Capps, Catey Ott, Daniel Linehan |
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October 26 — Philippa Kaye, Adam Scher, Parijat Desai |
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November 9 — 92nd Street Y Legacy Performance — Pascal Rioult |
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November 30 — Risa Jaroslaw, Shannon Hummel, Duane Cyrus |
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y HARKNESS DANCE CENTER |
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In 1935, what is now the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center provided a home to the fledgling modern dance movement and its leader, Martha Graham. Among the great artists who have created, performed and taught at the Y are Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Erick Hawkins, Robert Joffrey, Pearl Lang, and Donald McKayle, building the foundation for contemporary dance as we know it. In recent years, they have been joined by today's dance stars, like David Parsons, Zvi Gotheiner, Keely Garfield, Neil Greenberg, Bill T. Young, Maia Claire Garrison, David Dorfman and Sean Curran. With the generous support of the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Center continues to nurture the teaching, creation and performance of modern dance, serving adults, children, dance professionals and the community at large through classes and performance programs including the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, the Y's annual contemporary dance festival.
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 7,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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© 2008 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
All Rights Reserved. |
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